“Displacement is not business, it’s disruption,” Sophia Belle, who had been a tenant of the EMF building, told a crowd at the rally to “Save EMF” at Brattle Plaza in…Continue Reading →
WONDERLAND’s guide to art exhibitions to check out this summer, from Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Mirror Room” to Black Radical Women, from Neil Armstrong’s Space Gloves to Sally Mann’s Southern Gothic.…Continue Reading →
Maria Molteni often operates at the intersection of art and craft and feminism and athletics. Her latest project is a visionary mural of moons, lightning and a roiling sea painted…Continue Reading →
On a cool, overcast Memorial Day Monday, I join Mark Alston-Follansbee as he’s repainting the exterior of his Toyota Camry in the driveway of his Waltham home. Over the years,…Continue Reading →
Last Friday morning, Ekua Holmes (pictured above) was outside the Grove Hall Public Library in Boston’s Roxbury neighborhood with folks from the Urban Farming Institute who were helping her plant hundreds…Continue Reading →
How can we imagine the unimaginable number of people who die from guns in the United States each year? Federal statistics say the tally was 37,863 people lost in 2016,…Continue Reading →
What do we need from the city of Boston’s next chief of arts and culture? The Boston Globe published my thoughts: One measure of a healthy city is the art…Continue Reading →
In 1970, nearly 70 percent of Boston’s population was white. But according to a 2014 Boston Redevelopment Authority Report, these days, whites account for 47 percent of Boston’s residents—making it…Continue Reading →
Caldecott Medal-winning children’s book illustrator Ed Emberley visited Malden last night to celebrate the debut of a new mural inspired by his 1970 “Drawing Book of Animals.” “The fact that…Continue Reading →
Last Wednesday night, at the University of Rhode Island’s Paff Auditorium in Providence, leaders of AS220 launched the public part of their “All Access” campaign “to comprehensively renovate and upgrade…Continue Reading →